Commentary
BDS Comes to Campus Amid Afghanistan Withdrawal and 9/11 Anniversary
The fall academic semester began with the American evacuation of Afghanistan and the takeover by the Taliban. No condemnations of the Taliban, including for...
Palestinian Prisoners and the Israeli Death Penalty
Six Palestinian inmates (five belonged to Islamic Jihad, and four were serving life sentences for attacks that killed Israelis) recently escaped from a prison in northern Israel. All six were recaptured less than two weeks...
Another Iranian Foreign Assassination Campaign Emerges in Colombia
An unprecedented operation involving 15 international security agencies has exposed an Iranian terror infrastructure that was planning a series of assassinations against Israeli and Western targets around the world. It started in June, when Colombia's Dirección...
Netanyahu’s Shadow Is Keeping the Coalition Together
Israel’s governing coalition has reached the significant milestone of 100 days in power. The fact that it has remained intact is very much thanks to the shadow cast by Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister,...
Lessons From North Korea: Once You Go Nuclear, You Don’t Go Back
The Biden administration has accepted the fact that CVID -- the complete, verifiable, and irreversible...
A Silent Arab Spring Is Sprouting … in Israel
JNS.org - Good news is never that exciting. It’s always more dramatic to ring the...
The French Double Standard on Israel
JNS.org - During the May 2021 Gaza war, which began with a salvo of Hamas...
When Critics of Israel Lose, It’s ‘the Jews’ Fault’
JNS.org - One of the elders of the domestic Arab lobby is James Zogby, who...
Mahmoud Abbas’s Fantasy
JNS.org - Every few years, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, now in the 16th year...
BDS Comes to Campus Amid Afghanistan Withdrawal and 9/11 Anniversary
The fall academic semester began with the American evacuation of Afghanistan and the takeover by the Taliban. No condemnations of the Taliban, including for murder...
Palestinian Prisoners and the Israeli Death Penalty
Six Palestinian inmates (five belonged to Islamic Jihad, and four were serving life sentences for attacks that killed Israelis) recently escaped from a prison in...
Another Iranian Foreign Assassination Campaign Emerges in Colombia
An unprecedented operation involving 15 international security agencies has exposed an Iranian terror infrastructure that was planning a series of assassinations against Israeli and Western...
Netanyahu’s Shadow Is Keeping the Coalition Together
Israel’s governing coalition has reached the significant milestone of 100 days in power. The fact that it has remained intact is very much thanks to...
Lessons From North Korea: Once You Go Nuclear, You Don’t Go Back
The Biden administration has accepted the fact that CVID -- the complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantling of the North Korean nuclear program -- will not...
A Silent Arab Spring Is Sprouting … in Israel
JNS.org - Good news is never that exciting. It’s always more dramatic to ring the alarm about one problem or another. Calling Israel an “apartheid”...
The French Double Standard on Israel
JNS.org - During the May 2021 Gaza war, which began with a salvo of Hamas missiles being fired at Jerusalem, France condemned the terrorist organization...
When Critics of Israel Lose, It’s ‘the Jews’ Fault’
JNS.org - One of the elders of the domestic Arab lobby is James Zogby, who has been propagandizing against Israel and the pro-Israel lobby for...
Mahmoud Abbas’s Fantasy
JNS.org - Every few years, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, now in the 16th year of his four-year term, addresses the UN General Assembly to...
Iraq Persecutes Its Heretics
JNS.org - It has the air of a witch-hunt. Many of the 300 leaders of Iraqi civil society, Sunni and Shi’a, who gathered in the...
Is It Ever OK to Praise the ‘Truth’ of an Antisemitic Blood Libel?
JNS.org - Does it matter if politicians let lies told by people they meet publicly go unanswered? That’s the question that many in the Jewish...
New York Times Warps History of Iraqi Jewry
A New York Times dispatch from Baghdad reports on reaction to a conference about peace between Israel and Iraq. In the process, the Times news...
Iran’s New Interest in Nuclear Talks Is Nothing to Celebrate
Iran is signaling its willingness to return to talks with the P5+1 countries (the United States, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, plus Germany) over...
Aleph and Beit
This week, an article in The Atlantic grabbed my eye. It described the enigmatic sacoglossa sea slugs that harvest energy from the sun’s rays, by photosynthesizing ingested algae cells....
